US Congress House Bill 2696 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 16 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-07-16 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Pending: House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the head of a federal agency who is hosting a conference or sending an agency employee to a conference to submit to Congress, not later than 30 days before the conference, a report that includes: (1) an itemized statement of the cost of attending the conference, (2) the total cost to the agency hosting the conference, (3) the names of keynote speakers, (4) a list of conference attendees, (5) the location of the conference, (6) a summary of the purposes and goals of the conference, and (7) a conference itinerary. Defines "conference" as a meeting, retreat, seminar, symposium, training, or other event that involves travel for 50 or more attendees.

To increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing any proposed conference.

Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]

Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-07-16	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2696/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2696/BILLS-113hr2696ih.pdf